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MiamiHerald.com:
A voting debacle in Doral causes chaos and confusion — Mayor Carlos Gimenez said part of the reason the county elections headquarters temporarily shut down Sunday with a crowd waiting outside to vote was because he had not authorized the additional hours. — PMAZZEI@MIAMIHERALD.COM
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
South Florida County Extends Early Voting — But Only In One GOP Stronghold — Last night, voters in Miami-Dade County were forced to wait in line up to six hours to vote. In some precincts voters who arrived at 7PM were not able to cast their ballots until 1AM.
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CBS Miami, skippy the bush kangaroo and Connecting.the.Dots
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Florida Early Voting Fiasco: Voters Wait For Hours At Polls As Rick Scott Refuses To Budge
Florida Early Voting Fiasco: Voters Wait For Hours At Polls As Rick Scott Refuses To Budge
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Daily Kos, The Raw Story, Naked Politics, The Reality-Based Community, ThinkProgress and The Stranger …
Lizette Alvarez / The Caucus:
Democrats Sue to Extend Florida's Early Voting
Democrats Sue to Extend Florida's Early Voting
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The Atlantic Online, Plunderbund, The BRAD BLOG, ABCNEWS, Naked Politics and Marbury
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Obama Gains Edge in Campaign's Final Days — Obama 50% - Romney 47% — OVERVIEW — Barack Obama has edged ahead of Mitt Romney in the final days of the presidential campaign. In the Pew Research Center's election weekend survey, Obama holds a 48% to 45% lead over Romney among likely voters.
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CNN:
CNN National Poll: Dead heat between Obama and Romney — Washington (CNN) - It's all tied up, according to a new national poll released two days before the presidential election. — And the CNN/ORC International survey not only indicates a dead heat in the race for the White House …
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The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider, Weasel Zippers, GayPatriot and Battleground Watch
USA Today:
ENTHUSED ABOUT THE ELECTION, CERTAIN OF THEIR VOTE — AND TIED — USA TODAY and Gallup have conducted 11 surveys over the past year or so in the nation's dozen top battlegrounds. Here is a rundown on how the contest has changed over that time and where it stands now.
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Ballot Box, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Moderate Voice
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Wisdom of Politico — From an article just out from Politico ... As I've written many times before, the second rate product. If this is a subject that interests you, I'd encourage you to read the piece I linked right there. — Or to be more specific, Obama's winning but not with the best votes.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Jesus' General and Brad DeLong
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Linda McMahon Doorhanger: Vote For Obama ... And Me — Connecticut Republican Senate nominee Linda McMahon has been telling voters lately that it's okay to vote for President Obama as well as her. Now she's taking it a step further — and getting about as far away from her own party's nominee …
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Outside the Beltway, CT Senate 2012, The Daily Caller, Riehl World News, The Hinterland Gazette and msnbc.com
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Reuters:
New Jersey Governor pledges to vote Romney despite plug for Obama — (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie defended his praise for President Barack Obama's support after superstorm Sandy, but said he would stick with his Republican ticket and vote for Mitt Romney in this Tuesday's election.
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Outside the Beltway
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
28,000 SUPPORTERS Turn Out in the Cold to See Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania! — 28,000 SUPPORTERS Turned Out to See Mitt in Bucks County Pennsylvania! — Mitt is pulling in larger crowds - IN THE COLD - than Barack Obama and Bill Clinton - COMBINED! — Philip Rucker
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American Power and The Lonely Conservative
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog:
Romney staff refusing to let frostbitten children leave PA rally — This is happening right now at Mitt Romney's rally in Pennsylvania. Apparently it's freezing, and Romney's staff is refusing to let rally-goers leave. People are begging reporters for help. — Absolutely incredible.
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Firedoglake
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Ryan Rocks Minnesota [Updated] — Some scoff at the idea that Mitt Romney might carry Minnesota, but actions speak louder than words. Both Bill Clinton and Paul Ryan campaigned in Minnesota today. This morning, I put out a call to Power Line readers who attended the Ryan event to send me photos and accounts of the rally.
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Robert Creamer / The Huffington Post:
Why Should You Vote? Visualize Romney World — My wife, Jan Schakowsky, and I are friends with a wonderful woman named Bea. Bea is now 95 years old. Bea was born in 1917. — She was born in a country where women couldn't vote. In some areas of the country, just fifty years before, slavery had been legal.
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Alan Duke / CNN:
Extra day of voting possible in New York — A dump truck empties trash collected from homes damaged by Superstorm Sandy on Saturday, November 3, in the Midland Beach neighborhood of Staten Island, New York. New York is trying to clean up and resume normal activities days after the storm hit.
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Associated Press:
Republican Mitt Romney sprinted through battleground states on Sunday with a renewed pledge to bring a spirit of cooperation to Washington. — He also promised to pursue an agenda that would alienate most Democrats on his first day in office. — In campaign stops in Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania …
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Politico
Sara Murray / Wall Street Journal:
Romney Calls Obama Re-Election ‘Possible, but Not Likely’ — CLEVELAND—The last of the Romney campaign's television ads has been shipped. Fundraising has come to a close. And the stressful preparation work for pivotal debates has long passed. — With just two days until …
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The Raw Story
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
In Ohio Vote, A Form-Checking Nightmare — For recount-ready legal teams, every vote could be The Deciding Factor. A weekend squabble in Ohio shows just how seriously and closely every decision is being watched. — The provisional ballot affirmation form at the center of the latest Ohio voting dispute.
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Plunderbund and The Huffington Post
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
MSNBC: Joke Network, Cont'd — Over the years, we have chronicled MSNBC's lack of journalistic standards. The worst offender, Keith Olbermann, is now gone, not because of his crazed leftism or frequently embarrassing errors, but because he was an insubordinate employee.
BREITBART.COM:
ROBERT THE BRUCE — Today marks the final installment of our weekly feature #WAR. Combing through footage of Andrew over the past few months is something I have not taken lightly. And now, on the eve of this historic election, I have been tasked with selecting one more video.
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Riehl World News and iOwnTheWorld.com
James Hohmann / Politico:
Battleground Tracking poll: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama tied — DENVER— With just two days to go until Election Day, Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are tied in the race for president. — A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Tracking Poll of 1,000 likely voters …
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Alina Selyukh / Reuters:
Obama, Romney in even race two days before election: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Obama, Romney in even race two days before election: Reuters/Ipsos poll
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The Fix, Business Insider and The Moderate Voice